Older people seem to be missing from budget 2027?

My grandparents lived on a state pension. His. From a full working life by him and she brought up their large family. Children sent back to the countryside in school holidays, as they had so many to feed. I stayed with them from time to time, they couldn’t afford to heat their house, put milk cartons on the fire as a source of fuel, they had free travel, but no real money, the least a society, a very wealthy one, can do is look after its elderly. If some are getting too much, tax them. But don’t begrudge or whinge about the level of state pension.

Yes they owned their home. With an outside toilet, neither could make it upstairs to their bathroom. They asked nothing of anyone, lived within their means, had no holidays. AAM only seems to know middle class pensioners with state pensions, private pensions, expensive houses.

I think fuel allowance should be very targeted. It was bananas that I, non resident, got the electricity rebate, multiple times, 2 years ago, for my ex tenanted flats…
 
Listening to Pearse Doherty on radio this morning, you could sum up the SF Budget proposal as "everything for everybody for free".
The joys of being in opposition is that you can promise everything in the full knowledge that you will never have to deliver on the promises.
 
walktothewater said:
This strikes me as a false dichotomy. Certainly, some older people have failed to progress and educate themselves and failed to move with the times.

I see no reason to discriminate between those who have reached a certain age and those who have not.

Currently, we are financing a large cohort of older folk, many of whom got lucky, due to accident of birth.

I see no reason for the state to give them extra privileges.

Frankly, they have already had too many. Whinging and cribbing and moaning about "oh we built this country, we deserve special treatment!" and similar nonsense won't cut the dice with me, and if it doesn't cut the dice with me, it certainly won't with the younger generations, of that I can assure you.

That's my 2c, take it or leave it.
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and some day another cohort of folk will be financing you....thats how life works.
 
Hello,

This is getting rediculous....

A large precentage of older people are in a position to either:

1. downsize, to release equity from the value in their current homes,
or
2. obtain a life loan (basically, an equity release loan, repaid from the sale of the property, after the person dies).

Many old people are also drawing on private pensions and not just the state pension.

It's time that the elderly were means tested, with the net value of their homes included in the calculation, then help given to those who genuinely need it, but not to everyone !
 
I’d agree they’re well looked after, My pensioner dad needed some electrical upgrades in his house which are covered by the council for some reason ( I’ve no idea why,). He got various quotes for a fuse box replacement and eventually chose an electrician to do it for approx €900. Sent the final bill to the council who seemed surprised and told him he qualified for a grant of 5k for that. No questions asked. Great little country - for some.
 
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